On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 18:35 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> Windows software that needs a high-performance
> graphics card, such as 3D modeling software
Recommend Blender. It's really very good.
But of course I'd rather stick my hand in a real blender than use or put
a client in the position of using
On 12 February 2015 at 14:46, Bill Horne wrote:
> selling more Apple products, not making the FOSS movement stronger.
No, that's what the general public does. Apple is anti-foss, not just
neutral to FOSS when you tot up their track record.
Martin,
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favorites in a corrupt way. Not
really looking at the merits of systems reasonably but playing vendetta
and fait accompli politics.
Systemd is what we're all going to use regardless. But don't ask me to
be happy about it.
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On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 10:31 -0400, Daniel Hagerty wrote:
> I have comcast business service (over cable) at home, being as my
> choices are comcast, comcast, comcast, or a comparatively low quality
> dsl via somebody.
The problem with monopoly is that even when it works ok for one person,
one time;
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 10:07 -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> The state of desktops on Linux is terrible.
I disagree with with the poisonous gentleman. This is just yet more
deliberately negative opinion dressed up as fact.
Richard, you obviously don't like Linux or Free Software; what are you
doing
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 16:47 -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> No, it isn't, and please stop trying to shove your philosophy in my
> mouth, thankyouverymuch.
Please sir! don't challenge my philosophy, my fragile world view can't
take it!
Broken, broken, rhetoric.
Martin,
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ped your short term job; but
that's not because the ideology of Free Software is faulty. It's just a
product of momentum and popularity. Popular and fast moving free
software exists and is extremely potent: And it's strong because it's
Free Software not despit
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 16:04 -0500, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> "bad Tom Cruise Movie" is a tautology
You mean tortoligy ;-)
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pers who believe money
should never be involved with software development and hinder the
progress of Free Software development as an industry force through their
misplaced politics.
Martin Owens
* Effective in the long term, obviously any industry can cut and run
with a bunch of bullshat.
On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 19:39 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> By the way, it's Gabe Newell at Valve. John Carmack is over at iD
> Software and Armadillo Aerospace.
Rookie mistake. I meant Gabe.
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On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 16:19 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> The single most significant roadblock is lack of
> documentation.
We don't get to act on that. We can hope on it, but writing better
drivers is more convincing to a company than sitting on ones hands.
> All the developers in the world tog
On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 14:09 -0400, Tom Metro wrote:
> My experience with the nVidia open source driver has been similarly
> mixed. The proprietary driver seemed to work fine for me, until one
> day when hardware rendering stopped working for Cinnamon.
The key thing about video drivers is that we n
On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 07:24 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I have seen good candidates rejected by HR
> because of the lack of a college degree.
Non-academic programmers add different skills and perspectives from
academic people. For me, it's a class discrimination issue and I believe
it to be wron
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 20:53 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> empirical analysis
Basically science focuses on studying natural phenomenon. Humans are
apart of the natural world (we don't want to go back to the time when we
weren't) thus the study of humans /and/ human behavior is natural
phenomenon an
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 16:36 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> If the scientific method is not applicable to the hypothesis.
Failure of the hypothesis ≠ none applicability. It's just likely the
experiment needs to be designed better... possibly requiring ethical
limits to be removed. Which makes certai
On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 21:16 -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
> Trust me: it's not content. It's not SEO. It's not anything I know
> about or planned.
There are two possible reasons why google gives you those results.
The first is that it recognizes you and gives you the priority that
makes sense for you.
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:56 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> ALL definitions indicate that it is H2O in liquid form. Far more
> authoritative than Wikipedia IMO.
>
> Also FWIW that post was meant to be humerous. I often forget that my
> brand of humor is lost on most people, and omitted the approp
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 19:25 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> Neither steam nor ice are water; water is liquid dihydrogen monoxide.
> Steam is gaseous dihydrogen monoxide, and ice is solid dihydrogen
> monoxide.
Water is a chemical compound, It's 'water' in all states. Only lit.
vernacular hints that i
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 15:29 -0400, john saylor wrote:
> self-immolation could qualify as marketing.
One man burning makes an entire middle east declare spring time. Talk
about marketing! ;-)
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d b) Marketing is an
intrusion so should be always considerate.
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On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 11:33 -0700, Joseph Guarino wrote:
> Your definition is much like a climate
> change detractors "understanding" of global warming or calling
> freeware and free software the same thing.
You get a false comparison award:
http://imagebin.org/274216
It is not good rhetoric t
On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 11:21 -0700, Joseph Guarino wrote:
> Proper SEO efforts are all about taking content
> and making it findable/indexable.
Understanding of SEO is already installed in this human unit ;-)
Drop the corpnym 'SEO'. If it's just improving the sites meta data with
a view to improve
e search results serve the BLU instead of the searcher is
not something that we should be actively trying to do.
There is a case for more specific terms like "apache vs nginx talk" or
"apache vs nginex meeting" but that's where we distinguish the kinds of
resources the BLU p
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 11:45 -0400, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>
> Don't go W2! If you are an independent contractor, W2 defeats your tax
> advantages. A W2 means you are an employee.
Can you explain to the lay person what tax advantages you're talking
about?
Martin,
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On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 13:22 +, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> A second concern is if my luck does not continue and I have to go
> several months without any clients. How do you stay busy? Do you
> partner with other contractors and share when you have to much work?
Practice through play, get som
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 01:34 -0400, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
> Part of the problem is that email just isn't sexy right now. Young
> people aren't using it much and it's overrun with spam. Lots of people
> have given up or gone to the big webmail services. All of this means
> that developers are
I'm actually surprised people advised sourceforge and google code before
launchpad. http://launchpad.net/
It really is a very good website for publishing your code, use of bzr
repositories, very good bug tracking, blueprints, PPAs for delivery to
ubuntu and built in translation community. The webs
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 15:37 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> I'd disagree; there's a lot of complicated functional changes we're
> trying to make. For example, unifying input method configuration with
> keyboard layouts.
If that's the best Gnome can do, am I allowed to scoff? It's not like
we're as
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:25 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> doesn't include other code and tools like RPM and Anaconda.
Er right, for good reason. RPM isn't really useful ;-) *poke*
Seriously Red Hat do awesome work, but RPM is like a deadweight around
the ankles of derivatives. Better stick to pra
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 11:06 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Red Hat sells responsibility.
Forsooth! So does everyone else, be that bundled with iron or CDs or a
smile on the sales agent's face.
RedHat though do a lot of work with the money they earn. It is good for
us that their products defy norma
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 20:59 -0400, Jim Gasek wrote:
> They're willing to undercut on price to gain a foothold.
Which is amusing because Red Hat's inflated prices are held aloft by
comparative expectation. Basically everyone in that market from
Microsoft, IBM and even Oracle are charging amazing s
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Transport if you can because this is the inner-city meet where there
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On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:42 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> ** Ubuntu 11.04 will be using the underlying infrastructure of Gnome
> 3,
> but will be using Unity instead of the Gnome Shell.
Of even gnome shell when using the Natty Gnome3 ppa.
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On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:46 +, johnmal...@comcast.net wrote:
> I have a project that has Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a kiosk with less
> than 4gb of space on the boot disk.
>
> Any suggestions on what to delete (minimal install)?
>
A standard Ubuntu install (desktop) will fit on 4GB. You jus
rogramming generic.
Check out the schedule and see if there's anything you'd like to learn.
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On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 09:37 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> We adjourned to Asgard last night only to find that it is much noisier
> than the CBC, and they could not accommodate us. So, we then moved
> back
> to the CBC. So far every other place we have tried over the years does
> not compare favorab
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